Chris Killip: 1946-2020

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Announcing the definitive, full-career retrospective of the life and work of Chris Killip (1946-2020), one of the UK’s most important and influential post-war documentary photographers.

People worked hard, made little, and correctly believed that their government took them for granted. Introduction by Chris Killip, essay by John Berger and Sylvia Grant; edited by Mark Holborn; design by Peter Dyer. In Flagrante" is considered a significant documentary work that highlights the human stories behind the economic decline of the time.Erschien ein Jahr nach und in einer sehr viel kleineren Auflage (von nur 1000 Exemplaren) als die englische Original-Ausgabe (Martin Secker und Warburg, London, 1988). Since 1994 he was Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts), where Chris KILLIP passed away on October 13, 2020. Each book features a specially selected sequence of images alongside an introduction and a conversation with or about each photographer’s practice. Wonderful enlarged version of the famous photobook classic from 1988: Martin Parr, The Photobook vol 2, page 299. Published to coincide with the exhibition Chris Killip, retrospective at The Photographers' Gallery 07 October 2022-19 February 2023.

To know this is to find inevitable heartbreak in Killip’s subtle appreciation for the hardworking lads who have few options beyond fishing, drinking, and otherwise hanging out, waiting for something exciting to happen, in a time and place when there was no likelihood of escape. It happened all around me during the time I was photographing' Chris Killip, 2019 Grounded in sustained immersion and participation in the communities he photographed, Chris Killip's keenly observed work chronicled ordinary people's lives in stark, yet sympathetic, detail. Late in 2016 Chris Killip’s son serendipitously discovered a box of contact sheets of the photos his father had made at The Station, an anarcho-punk music venue in Gateshead open from 1981 to 1985. Tis a pity that this definitive overview of Killip’s 40+ year career, as a photographer and subsequently as a professor at Harvard University, by the very limits of a one volume publication, cannot include the full bodies of his various projects. Born in the Isle of Man in 1946, he began his career as a commercial photographer before turning to his own work in the late 1960s.Killip was a familiar sight at the underground punk clubs here in Gateshead in the 80s and captured the visceral nature of the gigs as only someone can when they're in the thick of it with a camera. If you care about the off shoring of manufacturing jobs (and in this instance how that impacted the United Kingdom in the 1970s and 80s) you must seek out Killip’s gorgeous rendering of a tragedy that repeats to this day. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.